Transcript
Jamila Bell (0:03)
Okay, so welcome to another episode of Unhinged and more. This is obviously very special episode. This is outside of our regular schedule programming. So I'm going to cut right to the chase because I really don't want to be here long. So yesterday there was a video made by Jackie Aina to which she was addressing some, I guess you could say, her feelings towards certain creators. But it was very obvious that the video was directed towards me because she said, and I quote, I don't know her name, but I know she's light skinned and looks like Taraji B. Henson. If you don't know, I've been called Taraji P. Henson.
Mecca Evans (0:43)
A compliment of the highest order.
Jackie Aina (0:44)
Taraji.
Jamila Bell (0:44)
You know, right. I've been called Taraji Journey, Journey Smollett and Tisha Campbell pretty much my whole life. So with as soon as she said that, I knew the video was about me. So I did watch the entire 8 minute video multiple times because I wanted to make sure I could address every point and in detail. So the first thing I want to start with is she said something along the lines of she's not a fan of dog piling and she feels like because she has a larger platform, she's held to a higher standard. And I think that's an unfair thing to say considering this video is aiding in a dog pile. Because you have to put into perspective the videos that she's referencing that I made were made months prior. So as of right now, if you haven't really been tapped into Tick Tock, I'll do a brief intermission to kind of explain where all this is coming from. Over the past couple of days, weeks even, there's been this narrative being spun about me, Mecca and a few of our other mutuals and that we are mean girls, we are cliquey, we've even been called the Super 5 at some point. And everybody is honestly having different people who they want to interject into the Super 5, essentially saying that we are a group of creators that engage in dogpiling of others. That narrative has been spread across the app and I've softly addressed it, but not fully because I honestly felt like it was. There was no face to it, it was just people talking. So I really didn't give too much attention to it. I laughed with it because, I mean, if you want to call me a Super 5, then I'm just gonna joke with it because I just don't care that much. So because that is currently being talked about and that is currently trending on Tick Tock, Jackie took it upon herself to interject herself into the conversation and say, well as a matter of fact, I've also had run ins with this one specific creator and her other followers so it makes sense that they are all friends because she's had quote unquote negative interactions with all of us. So I want to start off by saying, actually I'm gonna play my first video. I've only ever made three videos about Jackie Aina to date. I've only ever made three. The first video I made was in reference to Auntie Gate, if you remember. So a couple of months ago there was conversation about people calling Jackie Aina auntie. As you know, colloquially speaking black people call other black people or you know, women aunties if they're a certain age. Just kind of like as a term of endearment or whatever. And people were calling her auntie like on the slide. Jackie has since said that she doesn't like it for her own reasons and you can kind of go see what those reasons are. And she said she doesn't like it, she doesn't like people call her auntie. And because of that, I guess people continue to call her auntie and she then essentially kind of started blocking people for calling her that. And that was her essentially keeping to what she called her boundary. So this is the first video I made. I'm just going to play the audio, the visual isn't important so that you can see essentially what exactly I said in reference to that situation.